ITUS Hires Michael Catelani as Chief Financial Officer

LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 10/24/16 -- ITUS Corporation ("ITUS") (NASDAQ: ITUS), today announced that Michael Catelani has joined the company as its new Chief Financial Officer, effective November 1, 2016. Mr. Catelani replaces Henry Herms, who will retire at the end of December after 21 years with the company.

Robert Berman, ITUS's President and CEO, stated, "We owe a debt of gratitude to Henry Herms for his many years of outstanding service to the company. We are pleased to have Mike join ITUS as we continue to build a preeminent biotech company. Mike's expertise with managing the growth and development of life science enterprises will be extremely valuable, and we are excited to add him to our senior management team."

Mike is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience in finance, auditing, and operations. Previously, Mike cofounded Tacere Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held biotech company, and served as its Chairman, President & Chief Financial Officer until its sale. Prior to Tacere, Mike served on the Board of Directors and was the Chief Financial Officer of Benitec Biopharma Limited, an Australian Stock Exchange-listed biotech company. Mike was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Axon Instruments, a leading designer and manufacturer of instrumentation and software systems for biotechnology and diagnostics research. Axon was a U.S. corporation publicly traded on the Australian Stock Exchange. Previously, he was the Vice President of Finance for Media Arts Group, Inc., an NYSE-listed company. Mike has also worked with several early stage start-ups in a variety of industries, including biotechnology, retail, waste water recovery, and distributed power generation, in both advisory and management roles and has served as a contract CFO to a number of established businesses in the biotech field. Mike began his professional career at Ernst & Young and is a CPA. He received his BS degree in business administration, with a concentration in accountancy from Sacramento State University and earned his MBA from the University of California, Davis.

ITUS Corporation

ITUS funds, develops, acquires, and licenses emerging technologies in areas such as biotechnology. The Company is developing a platform called CchekÔ, a series of non-invasive, blood tests for the early detection of solid tumor based cancers, which is based on the body's immunological response to the presence of a malignancy. Additional information is available at www.ITUScorp.com.

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Contact:
Dean Krouch
310-484-5184
dkrouch@ITUScorp.com

Source: ITUS Corporation

Released October 24, 2016